The Penguin dictionary of curious and interesting geometry. David Wells, John Sharp

The Penguin dictionary of curious and interesting geometry


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The Penguin dictionary of curious and interesting geometry David Wells, John Sharp
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In 1991, True Daisy, a complex design of spiralling spots within a circle by Robert Dixon, a mathematician and computer artist, was published in The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. His Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics, The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers , and The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry,have been favorites for a long time. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry . The artist claims that Damien Hirst's Valium is a copy of his “True Daisy” (published in 1991 in the and Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry). Sequences A000961 /M0517 and A024619 in “the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.” Wells, D. Hirst's manager contested this by explaining the origin of Hirst's piece was from a book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry (1991)—not realising this was where Dixon's design had been published. A companion volume to the author's “Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers”, which focuses on arithmetic and number theory. Shop Curious and Interesting Geometry, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry, The Penguin Dictionary of (Penguin science) [David Wells, John Sharp] on Amazon.com. He claims that Hirst copied 'True Daisy', which was published in the Penguin Dictionary of Curious And Interesting Geometry in 1991. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. The piece in question,'Valium' (2000) by Hirst, does look like 'True Daisy' (1984) by Dixon. I was looking through “The penguin dictionary of curious and interesting geometry” by David Wells when I came across a daisy head constructed by Robert Dixon.